bluetooth HID

[Guest v-650]

Hi all,

I've posted this here because I wasn't sure the best sub-forum to put it. I have a ZTE Blade Gen 1 running Swedish Spring 2.2 and want to use this to control a computer remotely. My old phone (a sony ericsson feature phone) could do this natively via bluetooth. I simply activated bluetooth on both phone and computer, paired the devices and put the phone in "presenter mode" where the joystick controlled the mouse and the keypad and buttons became left/right click and various other controls (tab/esc/directional arrows).

I've had a search of the forum using terms including HID, bluetooth and remote but most threads seem to either be about controlling a phone or tablet with an external keyboard and mouse set up, or involve installing software on the computer. As I will be doing this at work, installing extra software is not possible. However loading apps onto the phone is not a problem (the less expensive the better, free if possible).

Is there a setting within android to do this natively, mimicking the ability of a £40 feature phone, or an app that I haven't been able to find?

Any help is most welcome,

Thanks, Nathan.

[Guest flshg]

I dont know of any software which allows an android phone to natively control a pc, and it seems all remote control software requires a component to be installed on the pc. My suggestion is to use teamviewer as the pc component can be made portable, so does not require installation (e.g. run it off a usb stick), nor special components like java, nor admin rights. It claims to work through firewalls as well, but that means it uses a net connection rather than bluetooth. Perhaps its worth a look especially as its free. teamviewer.com

[Guest v-650]

I dont know of any software which allows an android phone to natively control a pc, and it seems all remote control software requires a component to be installed on the pc. My suggestion is to use teamviewer as the pc component can be made portable, so does not require installation (e.g. run it off a usb stick), nor special components like java, nor admin rights. It claims to work through firewalls as well, but that means it uses a net connection rather than bluetooth. Perhaps its worth a look especially as its free. teamviewer.com

Thanks for the suggestion. One of the reasons I wanted bluetooth rather than wifi was that I am not allowed to connect my own phone to the work network. I have used a wiimote to get similar remote control but since changing jobs this is less feasible. It would also require taking both a sensor bar and wiimote with me.